Only hours after calling for a “total and complete ban on Muslims entering the United States,” the Republican presidential candidate forwarded the notion that America should also consider “closing the Internet up in some way,” as a means of fighting the Islamic State.

During a speech, Trump said that children in America are “watching the internet and they want to be masterminds,” and “we’re losing a lot of people because of the internet.”

Forwarding the narrative that the Internet is responsible for radicalizing Muslims, a contentious point, to say the least, Trump called for closing down the Internet, by oddly invoking Microsoft founder Bill Gates as a point man of sorts in his ludicrous scheme.

“We’ve got to maybe do something with the internet. We’re losing a lot of people because of the internet. We have to see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what’s happening,” said Trump.

“We have to talk to them about, maybe in certain areas, closing that internet up in some ways. Somebody will say, ‘Oh freedom of speech, freedom of speech.’ These are foolish people.”

Let that sink in for a moment.

If you believe in freedom of speech you are a fool, according to Trump.

What’s interesting is that Trump’s idea sounds eerily similar to the “Great Firewall of China,” a censorship regime that only allows websites that are approved by the Chinese government to be available to those in mainland China.

If this is what Trump thinks “Making America Great Again” involves, perhaps we should be content to not be so great!

The business mogul then turned his ire to those currently in control of the U.S. government.

“We used to call it the quiet majority,” he said of his Republican base. “But people are fed up – they are fed up with incompetence, they are fed up with stupid leaders, they are fed up with stupid people,” said Trump

The real danger of Trump isn’t necessarily his actual policy, as he hasn’t even received a single vote, but rather the incitement of bigotry and encouragement of violence, which is legitimized and encouraged on a pop culture level through Trump’s rhetoric.

While many consider Trump an outsider, he has shown himself to be a skilled politician by stoking xenophobic fear and hatred in the U.S., first using Mexican immigrants and now Muslims as a lightning rod of bigotry.

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Mr. Trump is a douchebag. End of story. How is “closing up the internet” going to help prevent violence? Will it prevent all the mass shootings in the USA? Nope. People can still buy weapons without the internet. ?

I’ve also heard the theory that he want’s to bow out of the race by getting kicked out by the party. It’s all possible, and we’ll probably never know the real truth. I DO wonder whether this guy actually wants to be pres., or just have some fun running for it.

We jump down Donald Trumps throat when he opens his mouth and says things that are absolutely preposterous but what I find most disturbing is the amount of followers and believers he has. If it’s one thing that DT is teaching us is that there are a large group of people that agree with his speech, wether it’s hate or not people are agreeing with this shit. DT is just a mouth piece, he will never be president but he will always be the Donald. How does it go, “sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me”.

I’m guessing a large portion of the people in this country are still very racist, as Chump appears to be, and the first black president brought them out into the light. Of course, Chump is just saying what the rest of the republicon party thinks.

There it is..he want no internet.. No freedoms of speech sounds like he wants to be a communist.. He don’t need to be elected.. But u know the media doesn’t care..BC they get paid to make u watch TV and be puppets

Like him or not, Trump’s doing a hell of a lot more to try to save this country from terrorists than the “president” or any of you Facebook warriors. You seem to forget that if America goes down, so do all of us.

… speaking as a Donald J. Trump supporter (since he’s the best candidate who appears to share some of my same interests), I’m not sure what he meant by making these statements and would really like to know more about what he meant by them. But, I do believe he is mainly referring to blocking access to known terrorist recruiting and funding sites. In general, this is not one of my interests shared with Donald J. Trump, but we should welcome his free speech, even when we don’t agree; I’d rather listen to other people’s ideas, even if they oppose my own, because you never know if maybe there is something to be learned through the process. The bigger problem is when others twist the statements of another, with intentions of slander, to gain some political advantage they are not able to obtain through their own ideas.

Lol, what I say to that is: go ahead, close up the Internet to us. Watch how corporate banking systems that rely on the Internet are damaged. Watch as retail corporations revenue fall dramatically. Watch as NSA staff are looking for new jobs. Watch as their profiling is rendered obsolete. It’s all fear. They need us on the Internet more than we need the Internet. Let’s call their bluff and watch as they scurry to try and entice us back on

He wants to be a dictator. If he is unimaginably elected. This country will become a police state. People rant about Obama abuses of the constitution. Trump will throw that document out. He was to be Supreme Emperor Chump!!! This is not what America is! And if this nightmare does happen? The rest of the world will want to destroy us.

If he means closing down Internet to Isis are where they are fighting that might be good so they can’t communicate but also the government can watch peoples internet so closing it down would stop communication that can help prevent an attack so closing Internet is a bad idea

Someone should blow a trumpet up Donald’s rear end! He may speak his mind & plenty may be all for his views; but as time goes by more are realizing what so many already know. He is an egotistical back in of a jack ass.

Too many people have been brain-washed, in the name of political correctness, they see these ideas and actions as extreme, when in reality I’m beginning to think does in fact at least some of the answers! the guy opens his mouth all in the sake of protecting America, and everyone cries wolf, bigot, fear- mongering, fascist, Hitler! wtf? 99% of the people here, even those of you who claim to be highly educated are retards and haven’t a clue what’s going on in the world!

No its wrong! Its a Step backward. An open well of info is required. Fb or internet polling with a govt open book policy is more efficient. Knowing issues concerning humanites future with govt pros n cons can giv d pop understanding if govt believes the entire pop is wrong then they just over trump the pop but at least a transparent govt is better in my view fuck!! Sorry. . . Umm what else? Oh yeah! Monkey politics of stepping backward is equivalent to cave painting Mr Trump!

The idea of closing the internet just can’t be done, so you ignore that and he is entitled to his free speech, the important thing is not to take it seriously. But they can closed down the bank accounts of ISIS receiving money from the CIA and many others and block their accounts on social media easily!!!

I just said the same on another post regarding Trump. Sharing it here as you ask for an opinion on him. I feel it’s time we should all silently take a long look at ourselves rather than taking a look at others. Truth be told! This is the face of many. It’s a Human trait which humanity has suffered since the beginning of time. We are all one in this ugliness. Because we have this face. Fearing the other is a global trait. We will find it trickling in our very own veins if we look closely. Yet we keep a check and floss our brains. Some forget to do that

You idiots… are idiots. When the bombings start happening in America from newly homegrown Syrian refugees, you’re gonna pray you voted for Trump. Alas, it will be too late, and us (supposed) un-educated types will sit back… if we’re still alive… and aim our blame right back to you… but you won’t have any place the run… because by then, the takeover will have been complete! Think about it… or don’t comment, don’t have time for this nonsense.

To funny! You guys are useful idiots! HE SAID ‘ close it to DAECH !” ( Isis ) You know the people running chopping heads off! Keep up the part of being useful idiots! I geuss Russia can drip nukes like they said they might do ..its ok because lets not think outside of socialist propaganda . Idiots!

Donald Trump is amongst all existing offensive words, a hypocrite. He uses his freedom of speech to call for an end to freedom of speech…whilst subjecting us to opinions which are ludicrously ignorant and the product of being so immersed in a system, that he has lost all touch with reality. What concerns me, are the amount of people that listen to him and actually agree.

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